Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

Life didn't promise to be wonderful.

To become a star is the beginning of the end. I don't really want to be saddled with a screen persona.

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

The pearl whose possession separates man from beast, the pearl which is the rarest find - the best among virtues - is forgiveness.

I don't need too much. Glamour and all that stuff don't excite me. I am just glad I have the game of basketball in my life.

Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.

I've talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they're judged. They think they're unattractive.

Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality.